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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/6] mm: mlocking in try_to_unmap_one
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 05:26:14PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > Probably we can remove VM_NONLINEAR perfectly. I've never seen real user of it.
>
> Do you mean as a whole or in the mlock logic? databases are using
> remap_file_pages on 32bit archs to avoid generating zillon of vmas on
> tmpfs scattered mappings. On 64bits it could only be useful to some
> emulators but with real shadow paging and nonlinear rmap already
> created on shadow pagetables, it looks pretty useless on 64bit archs
> to me.

Hehe, you point out kosaki is stupid and knoledgeless.
thanks correct me.

Probaby we have to maintain VM_NONLINEAR for one or two year. two years
later, nobody use database on 32bit machine.
(low-end DB might be use on 32bit, but that's ok. it doesn't use VM_NONLINEAR)






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